The kid’s 17, his girlfriend’s 15, and allegedly they ended up doing what horny teens in the age of ubiquitous smartphone cameras tend to do. Then, somehow, her mother found out. Potential result: Juvenile detention until he’s 21 and inclusion on the state’s sex-offender registry if the prosecution can prove that the video on his […]

“People just don’t understand how influential media is in the lives of young people.”

I don’t know why parents didn’t trust the network responsible for “Jersey Shore” and “Catfish” to treat a subject like teen pregnancy sensitively rather than as campy reality-celebrity freak-show fun. Strictly speaking, what the study shows is that the teen birthrate fell more steeply in areas where more teens were watching MTV. The idea that […]